
Report: One in Four Young Children Have Immigrant Parents
Of the 23 million children under the age of six in the U.S., one in four have immigrant parents according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.

Of the 23 million children under the age of six in the U.S., one in four have immigrant parents according to a new Migration Policy Institute report.

In the wake of the ongoing events in Baltimore, the Justice Department Friday is announcing a $20 million body-worn camera pilot program for law enforcement agencies.

“It’s appalling that some members of the Republican conference, and frankly all members of the Democratic conference, place illegal immigrants on pedestals over American citizens, contrary to the needs and wishes of the American people,” Rep. Mo Brooks says.

Authorities have arrested one of the top 10 most wanted human traffickers. According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Paulino Ramirez-Granados has been on its most wanted list since 2010. He’s been charged in the Eastern District of New York with sex trafficking, money laundering and conspiracy to import aliens.

A Democrat objects after the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee swears in Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before his testimony.

Deportations of illegal immigrants from the U.S. are on track to hit the lowest level in a decade under the Obama administration, according to internal figures obtained by the Associated Press.

The Department of Homeland Security has declined to investigate Southern California Edison on allegations that it is replacing American employees with foreign workers on H-1B visas.

One out of 10 children born in the U.S. has an illegal immigrant mother, an expert tells the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security during a hearing titled “Birthright Citizenship: Is It The Right Policy For America?”

The U.S. likely will not achieve 100 percent situational awareness of the U.S. border before the end of the Obama administration, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson tells lawmakers.

Immigrants with gang ties should be absolutely barred from receiving executive amnesty, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-NC), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Richard Burr (R-NC) argue.

Since Fiscal Year 2013, at least 282 recipients of Deferred Status for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been kicked out of the program due to criminal or gang affiliations, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) highlighted Tuesday.

Department of Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson says he does not know who U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services union head Kenneth Palinkas is.
Palinkas, the president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council representing 12,000 immigration adjudicators and caseworkers, has been a vocal about the problems facing USCIS and a frequent critic of the Obama administration’s executive amnesty.

“I’m disappointed that not more people are utilizing this, and I believe that we need to promote the new program better,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said Tuesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Sen. Jeff Sessions has been among the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s immigration policies. During a hearing involving DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, Sessions offered a laundry list of frustrations with the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement efforts.

The Department of Homeland Security has identified other cases like the Charlotte, NC murder suspect granted executive amnesty despite his known a gang affiliations, DHS Sec. Jeh Johnson told a Senate panel Tuesday.

The Center for Immigration Studies estimates there could be as many as 36,000 births a year to foreign mothers manipulating America’s citizenship laws by visiting the United States just to deliver a child who will then be a U.S. citizen.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the family of a Mexican national shot dead across the U.S.-Mexico border cannot sue the U.S. Border Patrol agent who pulled the trigger.

Baltimore Police now say gangs are working together in order to “take out” law enforcement officers.

A woman from Guatemala is in the U.S. to face charges of smuggling illegal immigrants through South and Central American and into the U.S.

A University of California at Davis professor says a closed-door lobbying meeting on Capitol Hill to promote high skilled immigration to the United States was “incredibly sleazy.”

Former Southern California Edison employees are suing the Obama administration over its H-4 visa rule that grants work permits to certain spouses of H-1B visa holders. They say the action negatively impacts the SCE workers because not only does it benefit their direct H-1B visa competitors but it also increases the labor pool with new H-4 visa holders.

The number of deportations from the U.S. have declined 25 percent in the first half of this fiscal year compared to the same time last year, according to a new report.

Customs and Border Protection has a contingency plan in its 2016 budget request to spend up to $134.5 million “to provide the necessary support activities” in the event of a future influx of unaccompanied illegal immigrant youths.

During a Thursday panel hearing on President Obama’s new program to fly Central Americans to the U.S. as refugees and aslyees, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) pressed administration officials on new guidance dealing with who qualifies for protection.

The Obama administration has created a new immigration path to the U.S. without Congressional approval, Sen. Jeff Sessions says. “I just want to say, Congress rejected this. So the President is executing it on his own,” Sessions said.